THE UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM
THE UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM
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DOI：
10.1055/s-0038-1634945
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发表时间：
1993-08-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
MCCRAY, AT
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作者：
LINDBERG, DAB;HUMPHREYS, BL;MCCRAY, AT
1986年，美国国家医学图书馆开始了一项长期的研究和开发项目，以建立统一的医学语言系统（R）（UMLS（R））。UMLS的目的是提高计算机程序在用户查询中“理解”生物医学意义的能力，并利用这种理解为用户检索和整合相关的机器可读信息。UMLS努力的基础是这样一个假设，即及时获得准确和最新的信息将改善决策，并最终提高患者护理和研究的质量。UMLS的开发是一个分布式的国家实验，具有很强的国际合作元素。一般的策略是通过一系列最终期望的能力的连续近似来开发UMLS组件。三个实验性的知识源，元词库（R），语义网络和信息源地图已经开发出来，并每年分发给感兴趣的研究人员，其中许多人已经测试和评估他们在一系列的应用。UMLS项目和目前高速、高容量国际网络的发展正在以一种具有极大潜力的方式汇合，以加强对生物医学信息的获取。
In 1986, the National Library of Medicine began a long-term research and development project to build the Unified Medical Language System(R) (UMLS(R)). The purpose of the UMLS is to improve the ability of computer programs to ''understand'' the biomedical meaning in user inquiries and to use this understanding to retrieve and integrate relevant machine-readable information for users. Underlying the UMLS effort is the assumption that timely access to accurate and up-to-date information will improve decision making and ultimately the quality of patient care and research. The development of the UMLS is a distributed national experiment with a strong element of international collaboration. The general strategy is to develop UMLS components through a series of successive approximations of the capabilities ultimately desired. Three experimental Knowledge Sources, the Metathesaurus(R), the Semantic Network, and the Information Sources Map have been developed and are distributed annually to interested researchers, many of whom have tested and evaluated them in a range of applications. The UMLS project and current developments in high-speed, high-capacity international networks are converging in ways that have great potential for enhancing access to biomedical information.